MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES #193 FOUR LEGGED FRIENDS

A fun challenge for you this month with us here at Moving Along With The Times - let's see your four legged friends featuring in your projects.

I've used these ever so cute guinea pigs by Anita Jeram from her set Paint The Town.  I love how messy they are getting with that paint!  

I stamped the images first and then created a soft water colour background with my Winsor & Newton water colour paints. 

LOVE TO CRAFT #94

We are back with our penultimate challenge for 2026 at Love to Craft - don't the years go quickly! 

I'm apologising in advance because my project is a Christmas one - well winter one really. We have had so much hot weather here in Wales that I needed to cool down with a winter project lol!  It's a little accordion book which measures approx 3" x 2".  I used stamps by Tracy Evans Boutique Designs for the berries.  The Christmas carol quote is from Alison Bomber.  The little snowflake is from Tim Holtz Ideaology from a few years ago. 

I love making little books out of packaging and the cover of this was from an Amazon box.  

I've popped it on my Etsy shop and will probably make some similar over the next few months. 

PEARLY SPARKLES - #123 PINK, PEARLS OR SPARKLE

Welcome back to another challenge at Pearly Sparkles.  In honour of our founder Traci we always choose Pink, Pearls or Sparkle for our September challenge as they were her favourites. 

This is a challenge for me too as I don't have many pink things - or so I thought - and then I spotted 3 Distress Inks in Pink and a Versafine Clair Ink in Pink. I used water colour paper and smooshed the three Distress Inks of Spun Sugar, Saltwater Taffy and a touch of Victorian Velvet.  I then added lots of water to get the water marks.

I used my Lavinia stamps for this card.  I stamped the tendrils in Versafine Baby Pink and then clear embossed them. The fairy is called Seren, which means Star in Welsh, and I stamped her and embossed her in black embossing powder.  I added extra sparkle pens for her lamp and her hair.  I coloured her wings in Renaissance Watercolours which give a lovely shimmer. I added some extra Lavinia stamps to help ground her and the sentiment is from an old stamp set.